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Comptia Project + Project Management

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1. A change request that has been processed through the integrated change control process and approved






2. A formally constituted group of stakeholders responsible for reviewing - evaluating - approving - delaying or rejecting changes to a project - with all the decisions and recommendations being recorded






3. The document that describes the communications needs and expectations for the project; how and in what format information will be communicated; when and where each communication will be made; wan who is responsible for providing each type of communic






4. The formally documented identification of a defect in a project component with a recommendation to either repair the defect or completely replace the component






5. Logical grouping of project management inputs - tools and techniques and outputs. includes initiating processes - planning processes - executing processes - monitoring and controlling processes and closing processes. NOT project phases






6. Work breakdown structure component below the control account with known work content but without detailed schedule activities.






7. Identifying and documenting relationships among project activities






8. An approved plan for a project - plus or minus approved changes. it is compared to actual performance to determine if performance is within acceptable variance thresholds. generally refers to the current baseline - but may refer to the original or so






9. Budgeted cost of work performed






10. Specific type of management activity that contributes to the execution of a process and that may employ one or more techniques and tools






11. Bar chart showing the amount of time that a resource is scheduled to work over a series of time periods.






12. Category or rank used to distinguish items that have the same functional use but do not share the same requirements for quality






13. Processes required to ensure timely and appropriate generation - collection - distribution - storage - retrieval - and ultimate disposition of project information






14. Process which generates hundreds or thousands of probable performance outcomes based on probability distributions for cost and schedule on individual tasks. the outcomes are used to generate a probability distribution for a project as a whole.






15. The latest possible point in time that a schedule activity may begin based upon the schedule network logic - the project completion date and any constraints assigned to schedule activities without violating schedule constraint or delaying project com






16. Analytical technique that uses three cost or duration estimates to represent optimistic - most likely and pessimistic scenarios.






17. Identifying - documenting - approving or rejecting and controlling changes to the project baselines






18. A source of variation that is inherent in the system and predictable. on a control chart - it appears as part of the random process variation and is indicated by random pattern of points within the control limits. also referred to as random cause






19. Defined function to be performed by a project team member






20. Group of persons with a shared objective who fulfill their roles with little or no time spent meeting fact to face.






21. Store of historical information and lessons learned about both the outcomes of previous project selection decisions and previous project performance






22. Output from performing project management processes and activities. results include outcomes and documents.






23. Someone with management authority over an organizational unit within a functional organization.






24. Budgeted cost of work scheduled






25. Identifying all people or organizations impacted by the project and documenting relevant information regarding their interest - involvement and impact on project success






26. Approach to optimize project life cycle costs - save time - increase profits - improve quality - expand market share - solve problems - and use resources more effectively






27. Collection of generally sequential - non overlapping product phases whose name and number are determined by the manufacturing and control needs of the organization.






28. Condition or capability that must be met or possessed by a system - product - service result or component to satisfy a contract - standard - specification or other formally imposed document.






29. One or more numerical or text values that identify characteristics of the work or in some way categorize the schedule activity that allows filtering and ordering of activities within reports






30. Skilled human resources - equipment - services - supplies - commodities - material - budgets or funds






31. The process of managing procurement relationships - monitoring contract performance - and making changes and corrections as needed






32. Significant point or event in the project






33. Work that must be performed to deliver a product - service or result with the specified features and functions






34. The process of confirming human resource availability and obtaining team necessary to complete project assignments






35. The degree to which a set of inherent characteristics fulfills requirements






36. Hierarchically organized depiction of the identified project risks arranged by risk category and subcategory that identifies the various areas and causes of potential risks.






37. Group of potential causes of risk. such as technical - external - organizational - environmental - project management. a category may include subcategories






38. Response to a negative risk that has occurred - workaround is not planned in advance of the occurrence of the risk event






39. Slack - Total amount of time that a schedule activity maybe delayed from its early start date without delaying the project finish date or violating a schedule constraint.






40. A general data gathering and creativity technique that can be used to identify risks - ideas or solutions to issues by using a group of team members or subject matter experts






41. Provision in the project management plan to mitigate cost and or schedule risk. modifier: management reserve (unknown risks) - contingency reserve (known - but unplanned risks)






42. Centralized management of one or more portfolios - which includes identifying - prioritizing - authorizing - managing and controlling projects - programs and related work - to achieve specific strategic business objectives






43. Project schedule compression that changes network logic to overlap phases that would normally be done in sequence






44. Smaller portion of the overall project created when a project is subdivided by their logical relationship






45. Formalizing acceptance of the completed project deliverables






46. Calculated projection of cost performance that must be achieved on the remaining work to meet a specified management goal. ratio of remaining work to funds remaining






47. A category of projects that have common components significant in such projects - but are not needed or present in all projects. application areas are usually defined in terms of either the product or the type of customer or industry sector






48. Documents and data on prior project including project files - records - correspondence - closed contracts - and closed projects






49. Narrative description of products - services or results






50. Describes how the project management team will implement the performing organizations quality plan.